A convent student is kidnapped by a prince betrothed to a mad queen. After being driven out of the palace, she ends up in her aunt’s East African brothel. The legendary unfinished masterpiece by Erich von Stroheim, the great director (Foolish Wives, Greed) and actor (The Grand Illusion, Sunset Boulevard), was produced by and starred the era’s most glamorous film actress, Gloria Swanson. In fact, Queen Kelly is the film that Swanson’s Norma Desmond screens for William Holden in Sunset Boulevard. Queen Keely should have been a dream collaboration — a glamorous world-famous movie star and her financier lover (Joseph P. Kennedy) hire the most celebrated director of the time to make a groundbreaking independent film. Instead, the movie — which was shot in sequence — was shut down by Swanson after just a few of the scandalous African sequences were filmed.  The unfinished film — like Erich von Stroheim’s desecrated Greed — became Hollywood legend. Basing his reconstruction on von Stroheim’s original scripts, Milestone Films’ Dennis Doros has employed multiple techniques to recreate the film’s dénouement. Award-winning composer Eli Denson’s beautiful new score adds to Queen Kelly’s romance, humor, and drama